Comments by KelvinFox
Can someone change the page so it displays the true inventor
Dekle's hex Shogi seems to define Knight's movement somewhat differently (through that maybe also due to the different tiling) and the hexes are turned differently
I wonder if German chess (with chancellor as the royal piece) would be a viable game
On the mindsports website, the 4 corner squares are said to be untiled
Someone on wikipedia added the name Nao for a piece that moves like the Nightrider version of the Cannon. Does anyone know if this name actually was sourced from a chess variants book or was made up?
I wonder how I can make the Crooked Vao display correctly
A logical extension of this would be a version of this that only hops when capturing
This looks like a fun variant to play. I am going to test it soon
Another idea that I have would be knight then camelrider
The opposite version and the zebra pieces. I will edit them later with the correct piece picture
One of the weird things about this game is the fact that you can only have 2 Heavenly Horses at max, even though you need 4 to cover the whole board, probably there is some compensation for this. I also investigated the camel variant of it, this piece can only reach 1/6th of the board.
This looks like a somewhat playable variant, only the weird board size is killing it
Also, the movement diagrams are brokenA weird piece idea where all wazir movements are crooked
@Aurelian Florea
This is a Rhino where all Wazir movements are crooked compared to the previous one
The description for the knight is incorrect. It should read that the knight moves tw squares in one rook wise direction and 1 in another. The piece's current description, while making the same piece as the first one on 2d boards, gives a different piece on 3d boards
I've had a idea lately with a vertical only version of this piece
I am going to write a page soon about the Bishop version of this piece, which is featured in Caïssa Britannia.
I was thinking about a piece that moves like gryphon after bouncing
All The Kings men mentioned Banshee. I now also discovered Jörg Knappen used it his CwdA army Fearful Fairies under that name
The name seems to be a invention by George Jelliss
I've researched and I've found Nao multiple times in the Variant Chess magazine
Here a piece I'm calling the Spinning RC Car that moves like a crooked Bishop after the bounce
I'll make this page larger tomorrow. Could someone change the index description to 'Moves like nightrider, but must jump when taking'?
Thanks, source for this piece BTW is All The King's men and Julia's Fairies and on this page http://www.jurajlorinc.com/chess/mycompo.htm
Added the diagram, will fix error with dot tomorrowI've asked Mayhematics on twitter about the banshee piece
Edit: I've got an answer, he thinks the name was his (George Jelliss) ideawouldn't a 8th nightrider be possible which goes left-right for both vertical and horizontal moves?
does anyone know why mFyafsmFpafscB1yafscpF also gives the rook squares as capture squares?
Then there is a bug in the XBetza sandbox
EDIT: Here is the piece at the computer I'm currently using
I've added an example, I will do more when I am back home
The page still contains the error that this piece moves 4,5
I also suggest adding the hovering pawn in for pieces like mNmcafsW on the movement diagram
Another bug, on the movement diagram squares that may be only reached to capture own pieces are labeled red instead of blue.
Today played a game of Rotary with a set of pieces I made myself. It is a very nice game. The rotational element adds a nice layer of tactics. Only thing that feels weird is the promotion rule
I would use a overlapping red and blue square for cd (I first thought about purple, but that would be too confusing with blue)
It seems that there are very few to almost no variants having capturing own piece, similarly to how outside XQ there are no variants with a separate checking move (but that has a separate modifier as well). I would suggest making the friendly capture marker hexagonal and the checking marker (currently no marker) octagonal dark red or a crown.
The Zebra+Knight versions of the Hartebeest are bound to 1/4th of the board
I've added the value and another name by Gilman. Is this page good enough for Piececlopedia?
Thanks Fergus. I am really proud for writing this
I've corrected the diagram
I'm going to research the value soonThe Haddock on this page is a pretty weak piece. Of can reach some squares only in 13 moves
Couldn't a better octagonal chess be created on a dotted centered octagonal board?
8x8 Anglo-American Draughts is actually solved. Probably most complex game that has that title (I BTW still want to create a site like this but focused on abstract strategy in general)
what would be betza notation for Knight then Camelrider?
I meant the bent rider that moves as Knight first and then camelrider
what would camel-then-nightrider be?
A nightrider variant of this could be called Noctima
I've written a piececlopedia myself about the Unicorn (nightrider-bishop compound) and that got accepted, so you writing an article about the ferfil should be possible too
woudn't it be a idea for bent riders to use > or <. (example Gryphon would be F>R)
Another piece I wonder if it ever was used is Nao
It does have one in the comments
Wouldn't it be a great idea if there were a website similar to this, but also with information about draughts, Lines of Action and go etc, (and variants)?
Today I thought of a piece combining the snake with a Vertical rook, that would feel very nice
No, it would immobilize similarly to the Withdrawer
It would stop immobilizing when it is no longer a queen's move away from that piece
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what about a piece I recently read about that moves like reflecting bishop, but that must make at least one reflection?
This basically is similar to the Korean Cannon (there BTW should be Korean piece pages too)
This piece has also been called a Cao, probably the C coming from cavalry
I once read a comment by HG Muller avout how this piece van reach every square bishops can reach that are orthogonally next to it. But where is that Comment?
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About piece names: F-then-DD is used in one of David Paulowich's games, with a compound with rook too (Spotted Gryphon and Chainsaw). I recently thought of a F-then-W-then-DD piece. About Man-and-Beast, those definitely deserve a rework
Is anyone interested?
such a piece also exists with the Sweeping Switchers
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There also exists a earlier version of Hex Shogi bij George R. Dekle